Improved reverting of patches (was Re: [Open Office] Address books)
Jan Holesovsky
kendy at suse.cz
Wed Sep 7 13:57:51 EDT 2005
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 16:19, michael meeks wrote:
> > What I meant by 'dependencies' was patching already patched files, like
> > when file A is patched by patch X and then by patch Z. If you change the
> > patch X later, the unapply will most probably break. I am working on an
> > apply.pl improvement at the moment.
>
> Ah ;-) an apply.pl improvement would be nice - particularly reverting
> overlapping files recursively in the right order before re-applying
> them.
The files should be reverted in the right order now. It should handle every
situation I can imagine; but of course, maybe there are other strange
scenarios I cannot imagine, and maybe I introduced a bug ;-)
So, please test & report any misbehavior of applying/un-applying of patches.
Thank you,
Jan
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